Tomorrow's Kin

There were things I liked about this book. I liked how the aliens were interacting with earth and how I always felt like they weren't giving us all the information that they had. The science was fun, but the main character's kids all grated on me and there was a black character introduced who made me think that Nancy Kress had never met a black person before.

Tomorrow's Kin is the first novel in a new trilogy expanding upon Nancy Kress' excellent Nebula Award-winning novella Yesterday's Kin. The first third is the previously published story, and the rest of the novel follows what happens after the end of the original novella. Though I did think the novella was the strongest part, I found the novel as a whole to be smart and engaging. I also enjoyed following the main protagonist, Dr. Marianne Jenner, a mother, grandmother, and geneticist who makes an interesting–but fairly unremarkable–scientific discovery that leads to her being among the first to meet alien visitors to Earth. Kress seamlessly blends science and fiction in this novel, and I'm looking forward to finding out what happens next.

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